my external hard drive problem

[crazlaw151]

hey guys, by now I'm sure you've heard this before and I did take some time to look up the answer I still need some help.

I have a maxtor external 750gb hard drive that says "unable to mount volume" when I try to plus it in and view my files on there. I have a lot of stuff on there and don't want to lose it if possible. I need to know how I can get the computer to open it and let me view the files. It already shows that it is there, just not able to mount. Thanks in advance.

[taurus]

Maybe you want to connect it back to a windows machine and use the safely remove hardware option to unmount it before you unplug it.

Otherwise, open a terminal and post the output of this command.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo fdisk -l

[crazlaw151]

I do that and it pulls up the info for it, but still says unable to mount. I'll try hooking it up to a windows machine tonight and trying but in case that doesn't work what else could I try?

Like i said i would love to not have to reformat so I don't lose everything thats on it because thats where i backed up all my files before I switched to Ubuntu. Thanks again.

[taurus]

While the drive is plugged in, post the outputs of these two commands from a terminal.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo fdisk -l
df -h